# bug

2 messages from 2020-06-26 to 2020-06-29. Participants: Luke Knoble, Philippe Blain.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/53764

## Luke Knoble, 2020-06-26 21:11

Subject: bug
Message-ID: <CA+m5axz6QG5+AH5dB-J1dcD26z8z8uOUYUOgypu9kqoX49z0xA@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CA%2Bm5axz6QG5%2BAH5dB-J1dcD26z8z8uOUYUOgypu9kqoX49z0xA%40mail.gmail.com

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Howdy,

I've found an issue in which I'm using this command:

git clone --recurse-submodules ssh://git@someurl:9999/someproject/repoX.git

git clones the repo successfully if I dont pass “git clone” any flags,
but gives me this error when I use “--recurse-submodules” and git
attempts to clone a single submodule:

git@someurl: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
fatal: clone of
'ssh://git@someurl:9999/someproject/submodule_repo.git' into submodule
path 'C:/someproject/submodule_repo' failed

The obvious answer is that my permissions are bad, but I can clone the
submodule repo directly without issue.. This command succeeds:

git clone --recurse-submodules
ssh://git@someurl:9999/someproject/submodule_repo.git

what gives git?

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## Philippe Blain, 2020-06-29 18:08

Subject: Re: [BUG] SSH permission error doing `git clone --recurse-submodules <SSH url>` (was: "bug")
Message-ID: <114B6FFA-134F-4024-BB66-797B4367C5E4@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/114B6FFA-134F-4024-BB66-797B4367C5E4%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <CA+m5axz6QG5+AH5dB-J1dcD26z8z8uOUYUOgypu9kqoX49z0xA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Luke,

> Le 26 juin 2020 à 17:11, Luke Knoble <lupeknoble@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I've found an issue in which I'm using this command:
> 
> git clone --recurse-submodules ssh://git@someurl:9999/someproject/repoX.git

Which version of Git ?

> 
> git clones the repo successfully if I dont pass “git clone” any flags,

Does `git submodules update --init` then works ?
Can you share `.gitmodules` ? (is the submodules recorded with an HTTP
or SSH url in `.gitmodules` ?)

> but gives me this error when I use “--recurse-submodules” and git
> attempts to clone a single submodule:
> 
> git@someurl: Permission denied (publickey).
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
> and the repository exists.
> fatal: clone of
> 'ssh://git@someurl:9999/someproject/submodule_repo.git' into submodule
> path 'C:/someproject/submodule_repo' failed
> 
> The obvious answer is that my permissions are bad, but I can clone the
> submodule repo directly without issue.. This command succeeds:
> 
> git clone --recurse-submodules
> ssh://git@someurl:9999/someproject/submodule_repo.git

Interesting. Could you retry your commands, prefixing them with `GIT_TRACE2=1 GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -vvv"` ?

Philippe.


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